Roy Harding said:I reject your premise that I need to be "African-Canadian" to understand the problems. By your logic, I'm not entitled to an opinion regarding anything but Anglo/Scots/Irish/Polish Jew Canadians - because that's the demographic to which I happen to belong.
I never said you weren't entitled to your opinion, I'm not African-Canadian and I have an opinion on it, but I'm saying to fully understand what these kids are going through you have to actually go through it. My school was at least 2/3's African-Canadian and I've talked to many of them about the issue and they feel that other people don't fully understand what is going on within their community because they don't really care to know. You can have an opinion as much as anyone can, but what I should mean to say is that more non-African-Canadians don't want to have an informed opinion other than its just a black problem, so let the blacks deal with it and that does seem to be a very prevalent opinion in Toronto.